Usually means: Sandbar connecting island to mainland.
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  1. tombolo: Merriam-Webster
  2. tombolo: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. tombolo: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. tombolo: Collins English Dictionary
  5. tombolo: Wordnik
  6. tombolo: Wiktionary
  7. tombolo: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  8. tombolo: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. tombolo: Dictionary.com
  10. Tombolo: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. tombolo: TheFreeDictionary.com
  12. tombolo: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.

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▸ noun:  (geography) A spit of sand linking an island to the mainland (or to another island), formed by longshore drift.

Similar:
towhead, lockspit, sand spit, slang, loblolly, trabacolo, runn, terrace, tombstoning, spong, more...

Opposite:
isthmus, promontory, peninsula

Adjectives:
double, complex, single, sandy, small, triple, low, natural

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Similar:
towhead, lockspit, sand spit, slang, loblolly, trabacolo, runn, terrace, tombstoning, spong, more...

Opposite:
isthmus, promontory, peninsula

Adjectives:
double, complex, single, sandy, small, triple, low, natural



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